ADF personnel to be deployed to assist in flood-affected regions of NSW

Around 1,200 homes and businesses remain without power across the mid north coast as the clean-up continues after last week's record-breaking floods.

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00:00well thousands of people are still isolated this morning days after the weather cleared

00:09but we are hearing recovery centres are coming online in the worst hit communities

00:14Taree will be the first to see a recovery centre open tomorrow and that community will be followed

00:22by Port Macquarie, Kempsey, Maxville and Maitland now these recovery centres will be able to provide

00:29new documents, replace documents that have been lost in floodwaters, legal assistance, insurance

00:37support and help with claims too as well as mental health support we're hearing of the mental health

00:43toll on people who have lost everything particularly around Taree multi-generational farmers who have been

00:49reduced to just one paddock in some cases considering whether they need to walk away from it all and

00:55speaking about those isolated communities across the water here at Port Macquarie's North Shore we were

01:00there yesterday so they were cut off for days since last Wednesday due to the ferries being out including

01:07this one behind me which cable snapped during the peak of this flood over there there's a real struggle

01:13to clean up all that mud that's settling in without supplies so the resumption of services is very

01:20welcome there and cleaning up supplies with the volunteers that can come over now is a massive help too.

01:28Now we've heard from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese this morning who has announced more Australian Defence

01:35Force support that will be on the ground to help people clean up but also other disaster response teams

01:44who will be coming into these regions by the end of the week to help with the clean up and the PM himself

01:51will be visiting the mid north coast from tomorrow so there is still a long way ahead but we are seeing

01:58supply chains starting to ease up communities like Taree starting to get some fresh produce in for the first

02:06time with the reopening of the Pacific Highway yesterday and we also have 109 schools reopening in New South Wales.